Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 275, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1918 — SOME TOWNS MIGRATE TO GAIN PROSPERITY. [ARTICLE]

SOME TOWNS MIGRATE TO GAIN PROSPERITY.

When Snubbed by the Railroads Okfa. homa Settlers Move Over to the Tracks. RINGLING, Okla. Bvery little while a whole town moves Its Bocw tfcm In Oklahoma. Industrial conditions, the developing of new regions, the advance of the railroads to pipes* where there were untamed cattle and horses before have instilled the mov-fng-day spirit. A man from the little end practically unknown village of Staunton said the other day: “Well, we had a meetin* the other night and it ware the consensus of opinion that Staunton ought to move. She’ll never do any gdbd where she I* at. We can’t expect any railroads and it look* like they ain’t an oil well in ten miles of us. One of these day* all that is to be seen of Staunton will bo seen no more.” ■''just the day before this meeting the inhabitants of Staunton heard that the postoffice at the neighboring village of Healdton had been moved to John Ringling’s new town named New Healdton. Staunton is in the woods, far from where the train toots, aag for twenty years they have had io ambition to establish a thriving metropolis. But Healdton moved, and seemed to better itself. Cornish, once an outpost of civilization when Indians were bad and cowboys little better, also moved, and so did Hewitt, tor many years a prosperous country village in the Bayou country of Carter county. Nearly all the neighbors of Staunton moved and the indications are that a majority of those who moved prospered. At any rate they became citizens of ralroad towns where there were new blood and new energy and new ambition. There was a Walter* down on Beaver Creek. The railroad built a new Walters upon the hilL A fight between the towns ensued, grew bitter and more bitter. At last a compromise was effected and the railroad won. There was a Bottaford in the new country. The railroad built a new town near it and called it Temple and old Bottsford was abandoned. There are many more instances. Every time the Rock Island built a new line into that country It trespassed upon the aspirations of the people of prosperous country villages that had to be abandoned.